If you’ve listened to much of Hey Y’all: The Podcast, then you know that when we do our words of the year, I like to pick a verse to go with that season and study. It helps me memorize more scripture while also giving me a Biblical perspective on what my word means sometimes in a context I don’t expect. In 2024, my verse very much colored my outlook on my word and was a whole journey in itself so I was truthfully a bit apprehensive picking out my verse for 2025.  I did the us

Hey friends! As I began my thinking towards 2026 and all that it would hold, I, of course, thought of my word of the year. This is a tradition that started with Hey Y’all and has become a beautiful part of my spiritual life and my walk with God.  I knew I would be leaving 2025 with much restoration BUT with many bits and bobs undone which actually plays into my new word, I think. Not because I demanded these “fixes” or because I was going to figure them out but rather because

Reading: Luke 2 Mary probably pondered many things in those nine months of pregnancy. How was it all going to work out? When would the baby come? Would she and Joseph be up to raising a son, much less the Son of God? Her life probably became one of constant wonder and inner thought because who else could understand her journey?  We see one of these quiet moments of reflection as the shepherds arrive to see the angel announced Savior. Luke tells us that they rushed to see the

I have always adored the story of Ruth which you know if you’ve been here for long but over the last few years, as the Lord has grown me...

Friends, this is the first verse that has ever come up in my “life verses” that I tried to run from and flat out deny. In fact, when it...

Reading: Genesis 37:12-36 I have a little brother and I have been pretty darn mad at him a few times during the course of the last three...

This is one of those musings that probably won’t matter a great deal to anyone but me and my mother yet I hope if nothing else it will...

We’ve finally made it to my first life verse fully associated with a word of the year, expectation. The irony being that right after...

I’ve always been abysmal at sports or really anything athletic. I could dance easily enough but even my adolescent attempts at gymnastics...

Reading: Job 1-2 I have a confession and it makes me feel awful but I feel I can be honest with you, my friend. When I read the beginning...